Liposomes replace serum for cultivation of fermenting mycoplasmas.

Applied and Environmental Microbiology
R G ClussN L Somerson

Abstract

Cholesterol and albumin are limiting factors in the growth of Mycoplasma species. These nutrients are usually supplied in the culture medium by the addition of serum. The growth of M. pneumoniae in a serum-free medium containing an ethanolic cholesterol suspension and albumin was about one-half the level attained in serum-containing medium. M. gallisepticum and M. fermentans were not cultivable in the cholesterol suspension medium even after supplements were included. In another culture medium containing phosphatidylcholine-cholesterol liposomes and albumin as serum replacements, the growth of M. pneumoniae was approximately equal to that in serum-containing medium, and the growth of M. gallisepticum and M. fermentans was significantly greater than that in medium containing serum. M. fermentans produced even higher yields in liposome medium supplemented with arginine. These fermenting mycoplasmas readily adapted to the liposome medium and by the fifth or sixth serial passage produced thick confluent growth on the lower surface of culture bottles. To obtain maximum growth, we serially transferred the mycoplasmas at least 10 times in serum-free medium before quantitations of growth were made. This is the first report of a serum-f...Continue Reading

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Oct 25, 2020·NPJ Systems Biology and Applications·Erika GaspariMaria Suarez-Diez
Apr 1, 1984·Journal of Clinical Microbiology·R G Cluss, N L Somerson
Jul 1, 1990·Applied and Environmental Microbiology·G Muñoz, P Sotomayor
Feb 1, 1986·Applied and Environmental Microbiology·R G Cluss, N L Somerson

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